cybereality I don't do it for saving power, turning on the computer in the morning makes me feel good. Typing startx and watching my screen turn red, beige and orange makes me want to do things that day. That and chocolate milk that I have the balls to call "coffee". It's like a starbucks frappe but only 2% of the sugar content. And warm. Very warm. I don't handle caffeine well.

    She made it to the top!!! Realistic rooftop scene created in Godot Engine 4.0.

    Still trying to figure out if I want to make this parkour game, so just playing with some assets I found.

    Concept was a modern day Eastern Europe kinda ghetto rooftops. Thoughts?

      Looks nice. If realism was your goal you made it. Ambient occlusion could be tweaked, looking at her feet. But I am really nitpicking :-) Many games aren't that good.

      Yeah, I tried to add more AO, it's there but I couldn't set it too high for the feet or it darkened the level too much.

      The issue is that most of the lighting comes from the sky, not the directional light. And the ambient bounce is blowing out the shadow.

      But getting the shadow darker made the rest of the picture look unrealistic. I could have probably tweaked it more, but it looked good enough to share.

      cybereality The outfit makes me think eastern europe, and the scene makes me feel tense like taking a bus ride through old china town in Portland.
      I don't know a thing about realism, but it makes me feel things, and I like it when art makes me feel things.

        Watched a few shows today. One was this Sherlock Holmes movie where he was able to tell a person he just met that he had just made a trip to some place, the reason being he had some mud on his shoe that was distinctive to that place. Kind of hilarious when you think about it. The other was this anime where it was after an apocalypse and they were using technology they found here and there, but were driving around in huge cities that had like tank treads underneath but it looked like they were running on steam power. No it wasn't anime, that would have been better, it was actually live actors.

          cybereality Concept was a modern day Eastern Europe kinda ghetto rooftops.

          I used to do free-running like that in abandoned 90's early 2000's industrial environments and while we were lucky not to get hurt I'd have to advise against it now that I'm older and smarter. But maybe it would work as a game, yeah. To be fair most of the dilapidated soviet era industrial environments are cleaned up and gone now. At least in the Baltics.

              fire7side For a moment I got excited and thought you were talking about Psych. I've seen every episode of that show maybe three times now. That and ghost whisperer, which my mom banned me from watching 3 years after i started watching it telling me it would give me nightmares. I watched it anyway and got a nightmare about getting a nightmare from watching the show.
              The only things those shows really did was give me a taste for spooks and a dark sense of humor. That and jealousy of James Roday's face and hair back when it was 2006. Before now, where he looks frighteningly like my youth pastor when I was a teenager.

                Megalomaniak I stick to the wetlands at night where there's no one to complain but the homeless dudes who're also trying to avoid cops. The savannah's so wet and cold at night it gets incredibly misty. You can't see through mist that thick so as far as anybody's concerned, I'm probably just a buck. Or a coyote.

                  Megalomaniak I used to do free-running like that in abandoned 90's early 2000's industrial environments and while we were lucky not to get hurt I'd have to advise against it now that I'm older and smarter.

                  Yeah, I was big into skateboarding in the 90's / early 2000's. I guess it's kind of related, well more to tricking, but I think it's the same kinds of people. I would do all kinds of crazy jumps down stairs and super dangerous stuff, not sure how I didn't die or get disabled honestly. I guess when you are young you can fall down and get hit and nothing happens. I'm to the point where I can get hurt stepping to cross the street now, not so much fun.

                    Darn.I feel so tired, yet I can't get any sleep. In the next 6 minutes, it's going to be 1 o'clock in the morning where I live.

                      Audiobellum My favorite trick is to down coffee and do something until sleep takes you. If it doesn't work, you should see a doctor.
                      My other favorite is an herbal substance that's legal in my state, but could be taboo here. It's probably fine to mention it it's medicinal, right? It was a doctor that suggested it to me in the first place, I think that counts as a prescription.
                      If you want to avoid drugs in general whether it's caffeine, melatonin supplements, or federally questionable plants, try going for a walk. Walk where it's dimly lit and smell the night air. Your body should take care of the rest. Wear a coat to stay warm if that's a problem. Doing anything that raises your body temperature like running will get in the way of the production of melatonin, the sleepy (sometimes sad) brain chemical.

                        Audiobellum It just gets worse with age. I was fine till I started working night shifts. Now I usually sleep 3 or 4 hours at night and take a nap or two during the day. Oh that used to be so nice getting all my sleep at once.

                          Hmm... yeah. I have this weird sleep disorder or something. I can stay up for a week straight, just napping like an hour or two here and there. Then I will have to do the opposite, basically sleep for a week and wake up for a few hours to take care of stuff. Luckily I work from home and I'm my own boss, but I've lost jobs in the past because of it. Sort of why I ended up in the freelance thing. Thankfully I just woke up today, got a lot of work done I've been putting off. I do take medication for it, it was much worse before that. But I kind of got used to it even though I know it's likely not good for me.

                          Does anybody at all remember Senses Fail? Do I remember whether or not I already asked? The answer to one of those is "no"

                          duane There are Haskell bindings for Godot, but I'm lucky to do what I do with Gdscript. My games are hardly mission critical.

                            Also Rust. About to become second Linux kernel language, though it may stretch a bit the pure functional paradigm. And I am waiting for a "how to shoot yourself in the foot with Rust" :-)

                            Has anyone here dabbled with google's carbon language yet ?